Committee on Interior
submitted its report on the investigation of the March 15, 2014
tragedy that attended the recruitment by the Nigeria Immigration
Service, the upper legislative chamber has refused to release the
findings of the panel.
No fewer than 21 people reportedly died during the stampede that
occurred at the NIS recruitment centres across the country.
The Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, who hails from the same
local government area with the Senate President, David Mark, was
widely accused of being responsible for the poor conduct of the
nationwide aptitude test for the Nigerian job seekers.
The Senate on March 18, following persistent public outcry, directed
its Committee on Interior to conduct a public hearing to unravel the
remote and immediate causes of the stampede at the NIS
recruitment centres.
The committee was to report back to the chamber within two weeks to
enable it to take appropriate action that would discourage such
recklessness during future exercises.
However, more than nine months after the committee, led by
Senator Abubakar Bagudu, concluded investigations and submitted
its report to the Senate, the leadership of the upper chamber had
remained silent despite calls for deliberation on the report…
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